Did local activism really matter? Liberal Democrat campaigning and the 2001 British general election

British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 427-444

  Cutts, David ^a   Shryane, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; LIBERALISM; PARTY POLITICS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 33745847068     PISSN: 13691481     EISSN: 1467856X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2006.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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